Grave with a northern exit

Tjæreby passage grave in Brandsbjerg was built in the Peasant Stone Age 5,000 years ago. It was a communal grave for some of the first peasants near Korsør. The passage grave is especially interesting because the entrance to the burial chamber faces north. Usually…

Tjæreby passage grave in Brandsbjerg was built in the Peasant Stone Age 5,000 years ago. It was a communal grave for some of the first peasants near Korsør. The passage grave is especially interesting because the entrance to the burial chamber faces north. Usually they face east or south. Only two other Danish passage graves have entrances facing north. Both are made of large stones with three passage graves in the same burial mound. In the spring of 2004, the National Museum of Denmark restored the passage grave at Brandsbjerg, where someone had carried out an illegal excavation inside the burial chamber. Due to the damage, it was impossible to tell whether more passage graves had once been present at Brandsbjerg.